​​Earlier in March I started stalking Emma Watson after watching her interviews for her movie Beauty and the Beast. I've of course heard of her Hermione Granger days but I was not just a hard fan of Harry Potter where she spent decade of her life playing Hermione Granger.Most people recognizes her from that famous character.

Most 90’s kids for sure was part of their childhood where boys have a crush on Emma and girls either look up to her or just wanted to be like her. Needless to say,she was aprt of this iconic film.

What I first noticed about her watching few clips of her interviews when she was younger is her maturity. She was way matured than most girls her age. She’s very likable and charming. One can easily just have a glimpse of her and be instantly mesmerized. She's Emma, just as her names says so.

While most loved her popularity and not to mention beauty in and out, I just adore her and look up to her as my personal inspiration due to her undying passion to fight for what she believes in it is her love for education and leadership in choosing to stand up when girls all over the world needs a beacon of hope. I was just stunned and amazed of her inner strength, I personally do not know her but the fact that she put herself out there and accepting the burden of expectations and scrutiny was just beyond impressive.

To be honest despite her fame, I didn't have much interest with her before. I just developed interest about her this year.

It all started when I've watched an interview clip of her in Youtube when she was promoting her movie Beauty and the Beast. Yep, a 3 minute clip interview made that happen. The moment, she sat there and answered the first question got me very interested in her.The rest is history.

I started reading and following her in social media. At the end of the day, I still do not know the real her as it is hard to tell which one is real or not today but there's this burning passion and the way she speaks out made me really super interested in her. I wanted to know what she does and what she represents and that alone impressed me so much.​

As it turns out,she's the kind of person that I can listen to forever. I loved her thoughts about social issues and politics. I loved her reason in accepting to portray Belle because she is a girl with dreams and great aspirations and it's more like her character in real life. She's not just some princess who slept and just to be wake up by prince charming. In fact, she made Belle an inventor on the film.She seemed to have so much fun filming it and same time she was very careful on how to play that character.She wanted to introduce Belle as a very independent girl. I have loved the movie even more because of how she wanted to tell the story and how she wanted people to see her character. ​

The thing is, no matter how much she meant so well and how much she wanted to stand as strong independent woman to help inspire others, she still received backlash and criticisms to the extent of death threats especially when she started talking more about her stand on gender equality. Instead of being threatened, it fueled her all the more to keep fighting. She did say in one of her interviews that the more they threaten her, the more she found reason to keep fighting. Wow, such a strong fighter we have here.

​Well, in the words of Melanie Scrofano, she’s not Nutella, she cannot please everybody. It’s just part of life and evidently, Emma faced her bashers so well. I am sure she’s so used to it. In fact, she dealt with her haters so well with class and grace.

It’s just that sometimes; negativity or criticism can spoil a person's mood and spirit. It just stands out for some reason and sometimes, it can drag all the other million positive things you can be thankful about and then sticks with it if you are not that careful.The thing about her is she handled it so well.

I was just captivated how she passionately talks about daily life issues that women struggled with from different walks of life and culture. She just hit me right in the heart. Finally, here’s a celebrity who honestly opens up about her insecurities and is not afraid of her insecurities and imperfections. It really felt like she has really genuine intentions to help uplift and inspire women who are not treated well.

Finally, I get to see a celebrity who used her fame to inspire and spread positivism. Here’s a celebrity who still not use to being surrounded and applauded by fans around the world. She carries herself in a way that she was just a regular weird girl fighting women’s rights with the love for education. She made me feel alright being just me. I feel like she somehow can relate to our human feels and moods.

When I watched Emma talk about being awkward herself along with her other life issues and being okay with it, I just feel uplifted. Sometimes, I need someone like her to remind myself that life isn’t all about being likable but it is all about embracing my uniqueness and be proud of who I am without compromising my moral values.

She just inspired me and I know it is bizarre to get inspiration from someone I never get to meet or even know but it was just refreshing. It just doesn’t hurt and I never feel as great and confident as I have been for the past few months. This girl is literally my hero and she helped save me from killing all my brain cells from stress and unhealthy thoughts and perceptions’ about myself. On top of that,being sexually abused myself gave me hope.

Finally,I have someone I look up to with respect and so much adoration along Audrey Hepburn. I have someone younger than me that I genuinely adore. To me,she's a positive, influential and innovative person that I can look up to when I need strength or when I need to get a better perspective in life.

I have someone to look up to when I am in my lowliest in life. I know it's not the ideal way to look up someone, a celebrity that I didn't even meet but I discovered another Wonderful Woman, a woman of insecurities and self doubts. A woman who's imperfection made the way she is and a woman whom young girls can look up to as well.

I simply love her because she does not need to be defined by society's standard to be cool. As most people would shun away from being called nerd or bookish or librarian, she was happy to share about her school experience,something she fought so hard to experience and wanted to have while most of us take for granted the freedom to be on our own without being scrutinized.

This girl is on fire, I wish her nothing but strength and incomparable endurance and influence to the world.

She has no idea how much she help a dying soul and to forget all the morbid pains of my past.

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